How do I keep Cats out of my New Raised Beds

Shoot the blighters!! Before you all come back at me saying how cruel I am, I am only jesting!:D


I use netting over stakes to protect mine.

 

We've had a feline intruder on our plot, too, recently. Up until today I had used citrus-based repellent pellets which were very effective for a few weeks. The cat's been back over the last few days, though, so I've put some sticks in the soil at wacky angles to discourage it!

I'm a bit wary about using a sonic repellent - how far is the sound likely to travel (our house is a small terrace, so there are half a dozen other gardens within a very short distance, at least one of which must be home to a cat!), and does it cause pain to the cats?

Also, what other "folk" concoctions are best for repelling cats?

paddy

 

Ok It's only a prototype at present, but I think with a little more work it should do the trick ::D:D



Martin

 

Oh that's brilliant Martin you will have to patent the idea. Ha ha. Oh aren't we rotten he looks a dear little thing. I am not sure about the sonic scarers some people swear by them or was it at them? Hee hee, No by them being serious. When I moved to my place the previous occupant obviously didn't take too kindly to cats spoiling his garden so went to the trouble of putting those awful strips of wood with nails protruding upwards out of them all round the boundary fence and walls. :eek:I thought that was a bit cruel but I suppose they must have worked - they are long since gone.

 

Hi Folks.

I use some very co**** (i.e. cheap!) chicken wire laid on the ground over seedlings until they get started. Seems to put off next door's cat from pooing there. When the plants get bigger, even small seedlings, she loses interest in that bit of the garden anyway.
Now pigeons and sparrows....... they're different.... (grrrr)

cheers,
Dave

 

L.o.l - the missing bit actually read c-o-a-r-s-e-.
Nothing rude - honest 'guv!

cheers,
Dave

 

Hi,

There is a cat that lives over the road from us and likes to come and dig up the flowers in the front garden and replace them with his mess... i tried the "get off" green gel crystals combined with 2 lemon scented shrubs in the front garden and this seems to have done the trick for now...

we have a 8 month old cat and he likes to eat the plants out of the veggie plot on the back garden when they are just coming through but as soon as they become established he loses interest.. i have learnt to keep them covered by a poly tunnel in the meantime..

Personally i wouldnt recommend orange scented products as our cat likes the smell and taste.. very strange i know.. but he also likes eating lettuce and various other things that he shouldnt..despite our best attempts at detering him..

 

Well thanks for all the different ideas, today I've had to take one netted cover off to put supports up for my peas, so I'm going to try vegmandans method of Citronella oil & water storing crystals, fingers crossed this works because although I dont think the cat could damage my peas now (they seem very well established) I also have little gem lettuce and salad leaves in the same bed which still look very delicate. I will keep you all upto date.

I did catch the culprit RED PAWED and suprise suprise it is our own cat Jet, he is still quite young, full of mischief & very inquisitive, so I opened the Citronella oil and let him have a sniff, take it from me cats don't like that stuff he ran off like a scalded cat :D anyway we'll see how we go.

Martin

 

Hi Martin.

My Dad put tubs of geraniums by his affected beds - he says that cats do not like the scent of these plants and keep away.

Might help!

 

Thanks lolibud, I will try that as well, even if they don't stop Jet they will add some lovely colour to my kitchen garden. :thumb:

 

Hi All
It's been three days now since the covers came off and vegmandans Citronella & Water Crystals method seems to be working very well, so far so good anyway. The only problem I can see is how much to use, because these flipping crystals just keep absorbing more and more water and where I've put them around my raised beds now looks like frog spawn :eek: with all the rain we've had today :D.

 

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You sure you've got a cat not a rabbit???

 

teabags sprayed with deep heat?

Garden ER - David Domoney's Top Tips - Teabags

 

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